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[–] SleepingInTraffic@feddit.uk 57 points 11 months ago (4 children)
[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 15 points 11 months ago (2 children)

What about a process? File gone wild?

[–] whatwhatwhatwhat@lemmy.world 32 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I’d call that a file loaded to memory

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Most files are loaded to memory in order to make any kind of use out of them. I.e. read/write operations.

[–] whatwhatwhatwhat@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

That’s true! I supposed it would be more precise to say that all processes are files loaded to memory, but not all files loaded to memory are processes. Sort of like the whole arachnids / spiders situation.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 points 11 months ago

Why not? Represented in /proc? exec() and fam? Read and write to it?

[–] PoopingCough@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

I mean, with virtualization that's pretty much true

[–] akilou@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] Gork@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 points 11 months ago
[–] kenoh@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you can open it in Vim, it's a file.

[–] SatyrSack@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 11 months ago

You can open me in Vim, Greg. Am I a file?

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 1 points 11 months ago

Files are just streams. Everything is just a stream, in real life too.